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31 marzo 2016
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is convening the global anti-corruption community to discuss effective measures to enhance integrity at the 2016 OECD Integrity Forum, which will take place in Paris, France from 19 to 20 April under the theme ‘Fighting the Hidden Tariff: Global Trade without Corruption.’
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31 marzo 2016
On 30 March 2016 in Paris, France, in cooperation with the Conseil des Ventes Volontaires (CVV), the regulatory authority for operators of voluntary sales operators of chattels by public auction in France, UNESCO organised a pioneering round table consisting of major stakeholders and regulators of the art and antiquities market, including representatives of the major auction houses, museums, the World Customs Organization
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31 marzo 2016
The 9th and the last Steering Committee (SC) Meeting of the Finnish-funded WCO Project "Building Trade Capacity through Customs Modernization in the East and Southern Africa (ESA) Region" took place in Kuusamo, Finland from 14th to 16th of March 2016.
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28 marzo 2016
Under the aegis of the WCO-WACAM Project, funded by Sweden, the WCO Secretariat and the ECOWAS Customs Directorate held a working session on the 18th of March at the ECOWAS Commission in Abuja, Nigeria.
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28 marzo 2016
The WCO undertook a monitoring mission on the support provided to the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) in the framework of the WCO-WACAM Project, funded by Sweden, from 15 to 17th of March 2016 in Accra.
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28 marzo 2016
Following an invitation from Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA), WCO successfully undertook a four day mission to Harare, on the 14-18th of March, to identify the country’s capacity building needs to implement the World Trade Organization (WTO) Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA).
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24 marzo 2016
The threat of terrorism is increasingly darkening the global horizon with violent acts occurring around the world, with the latest right in the heart of Europe. The WCO offers its sincere condolences to the victims and families of the terrorist attacks of 22 March, and expresses its solidarity with all of its Member States who have recently been suffering from terrorist attacks. This includes two Customs Officers from Poland, who were set to travel out of Brussels Airport, and were injured in the explosions.
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22 marzo 2016
WCO successfully facilitated a four-day working meeting at the National Academy for Customs Sciences and Technology in Khartoum (Sudan) from 7 to 10 March 2016.
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22 marzo 2016
The WCO, with the support of the Japan Customs Co-operation Fund (CCF Japan), the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) held a joint seminar on the role of Customs in natural disaster relief at the UN Economic Commission in Africa building in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on 9-10 March 2016.
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21 marzo 2016
The Jamaica Customs Agency (JCA) hosted the first use of the WCO Risk Management Diagnostic in the week 1 to 5 February 2016.
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21 marzo 2016
A National Workshop on Customs Valuation, organized jointly by the World Customs Organization (WCO) and the National Customs of El Salvador with the support of CCF Japan, was held in San Salvador, El Salvador, from 9 to 10 March 2016.
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21 marzo 2016
The WCO joined resources with FRONTEX from 23 to 26 February 2016, in response to a request from Armenian Customs for a ‘tailor-made’ support mission to further their security risk assessment efforts.
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21 marzo 2016
Under the sponsorship of the Korean Customs Cooperation Fund (CCF- Korea), a World Customs Organization Accreditation Workshop for Technical Operational Advisers (TOAs) in the area of the WCO Time Release Study (TRS) was held at the National Academy of Customs, Excise and Narcotics (NACEN) in Faridabad, India, from 7 to 11 March 2016.
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21 marzo 2016
The WCO with the support from the Qatarese General Authority of Customs conducted a regional workshop on the ‘Pre-arrival Processing System and SAFE Framework of Standards’ for the North Africa and Middle East (MENA) region in Doha Qatar from 14 to 17 March 2016.
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18 marzo 2016
The WCO conducted a second accreditation workshop for Mercator Programme Advisors from 7 to 11 March 2016Saint Albans, United Kingdom (UK). The Mercator Programme aims to support WCO Members in their efforts to implement the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement. In attendance were UK customs officials that were joined by other participants from Brazil, Mexico and Sweden.
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18 marzo 2016
Under the auspices of the WCO INAMA Project, a training workshop on planning Customs enforcement operations was delivered in Dar es Salaam from 29 February to 3 March. The event was hosted by the Tanzania Revenue Authority, with delegates attending from the Customs administrations of Ghana, Gambia, Nigeria, Tanzania and Uganda.
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18 marzo 2016
In response to a request from the Belize Customs and Excise Department (CED) Comptroller, the WCO facilitated a workshop to review the CED Strategic and Business Plan 2014-2017. During the week of 8 to 12 February 2016, all 12 CED senior managers participated in the workshop.
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18 marzo 2016
At the invitation of Dato’ Sri Khazali bin Haji Ahmad, Director General of the Royal Malaysian Customs Department and Vice-Chair of the WCO Asia/Pacific region, Secretary General Kunio Mikuriya participated in the 17th WCO Asia/Pacific Regional Heads of Customs Administrations (RHCA) Conference, held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, from 14 to 18 March 2016.
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17 marzo 2016
The WCO organized an Accreditation Workshop for Post-Clearance Audit (PCA) Technical and Operational Advisors at the WCO Headquarters from 7 to 11 March 2016. 12 pre-selected Customs officers from 11 Customs administrations were invited to demonstrate their abilities and skills in the domain of PCA.
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16 marzo 2016
Under the auspices of the WCO INAMA Project, a training workshop on planning Customs enforcement operations was delivered in Dar es Salaam from 29 February to 3 March.
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16 marzo 2016
The World Customs Organization (WCO), in cooperation with the China Customs and the WCO Regional Intelligence Liaison Office (RILO) for Asia and the Pacific, concluded Operation SKY-NET II on 20 December 2015.
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16 marzo 2016
The World Customs Organization (WCO), in cooperation with the Royal Malaysian Customs Department and the WCO Regional Intelligence Liaison Office (RILO) for the Asia/ Pacific (A/P) Region, concluded a WCO joint enforcement Action against Counterfeiting and Piracy Operation in the A/P region (Action IPR A/P). The operation, which took place in December 2015, was the first WCO operation in this region focusing on IPR, Health & Safety.
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15 marzo 2016
The World Customs Organization (WCO), represented by Deputy Secretary General Sergio Mujica, accompanied by Deputy Director for Enforcement Leigh Winchell, signed the ‘United for Wildlife Transport Taskforce Buckingham Palace Declaration’ on 15 March 2016 in London, United Kingdom.
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14 marzo 2016
Le mardi 16 février 2016, à Libreville, dans les locaux abritant les services du Ministère du Développement Durable, de l’Economie, de la Promotion des Investissements et de la Prospective, la Direction Générale des Douanes et Droits Indirects et la Direction Générale des Impôts ont signé un protocole d’accord portant sur l’échange d’informations pour une mobilisation efficiente des recettes budgétaires et la lutte contre les fraudes fiscales et douanières.
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14 marzo 2016
A WCO Revenue Package national workshop on the development of an Advance Ruling System for classification, funded by CCF China, was held in Dhaka, Bangladesh, from 28 February to 2 March 2016, at the National Board of Revenue.
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11 marzo 2016
In the framework of the WCO-WACAM Project, funded by Sweden, a support mission to Cape Verde took place from 01 to 04 of March 2016.
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11 marzo 2016
On 14 February 2016, the Directorate General of Customs (DGC), Royal Oman Police initiated the Single Window component of the Bayan automated Customs clearance systems. This is a phased roll-out during which onsite support for the progressive uptake of licences and permits at Ministries is provided.
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09 marzo 2016
From 24 to 26 February 2016, in Abuja, Nigeria, the 6th working session of the regional working group of HR and Training Managers of Customs Administrations of the West and Central Africa Region took place.
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08 marzo 2016
Around 180 delegates from Customs, trade and other ministries, the WTO and other international organisations, development partners, academia and business convened at the 5th Meeting of the TFA Working Group (TFAWG) on 29 February and 1 March 2016 in Brussels.
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08 marzo 2016
The World Customs Organization (WCO) is pleased to join the international community in celebrating International Women’s Day 2016 under the theme ‘Planet 50-50 by 2030: Step It Up for Gender Equality.’
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08 marzo 2016
The 2017 Edition of the HS Nomenclature, which will enter into force on 1 January 2017, is now available at the WCO Online Bookshop.
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07 marzo 2016
The 211th/212th Sessions of the WCO Permanent Technical Committee held on 2 and 3 March 2016 brought together over 170 delegates from over 71 Member administrations and 24 Observer entities.
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07 marzo 2016
The WCO continues to provide capacity building support to the Liberia Revenue Authority (LRA) to assist them with the implementation of new performance measurement systems.
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04 marzo 2016
The 35th Session of the Enforcement Committee (EC) took place in Brussels from 29 February to 3 March 2016. More than 150 Customs delegates participated in the Session along with the representatives of the CITES Secretariat, Europol, International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), INTERPOL, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), UNESCO, United Nations Office on Disarmament Affairs (UNODA), United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and others.
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04 marzo 2016
In 2015, National Customs Service inspectors at the Chacalluta border complex in the Arica and Parinacota Region of Chile recorded the seizures of 300 units of Seahorses and 33 Green Turtle shells.
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03 marzo 2016
The World Customs Organization (WCO) has made the "Technical Guidelines on Advance Rulings for Classification, Origin and Valuation" publicly available.
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03 marzo 2016
The World Customs Organization (WCO) has made its origin tools, such as guidance materials which were shared only among the WCO Members, publicly available except those related to customs controls.
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03 marzo 2016
The 3rd of March is wildlife’s special day on the United Nations calendar, a day when society is called upon to step-up deterrence of wildlife crime.
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03 marzo 2016
In the framework of the WCO – WACAM project support to the customs administration of Senegal in the area of HRM, an expert mission has taken place from 14 – 18 February 2016.
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03 marzo 2016
The WCO recently conducted two back-to-back missions for the Swaziland Revenue Authority (SRA), focusing on the areas of classification, origin and valuation.
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03 marzo 2016
In the first two months of 2016, Brazilian Customs has seized 234 kg of drugs valued at a total of R$ 80 million (20 million USD) at Guarulhos Airport Customs in São Paulo. The first seizure occurred on 28 and 29 January 2016 and was followed by seizures on 3, 19, and 22 February 2016.
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02 marzo 2016
At the invitation of H.E. Mr. Tsukasa Kawada, Japan’s Ambassador in charge of International Cooperation for Countering Terrorism and International Organized Crime and Chair of the G7 Roma-Lyon Group, WCO Secretary General Kunio Mikuriya participated in the Group’s meeting held in Tokyo on 1 March 2016.
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02 marzo 2016
The New Zealand Customs Minister, Hon. Nicky Wagner, met with Deputy Secretary General Sergio Mujica at WCO Headquarters on 2 March 2016 to discuss a range of topical Customs matters, including e-commerce, digital Customs, security issues and trade facilitation.
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